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by hlandau 4y ago
Wait, what? I thought the term "tape out" came from the original process whereby the design would be exported to a data tape for transport to the fab.
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by hlandau 4y ago
Speaking personally, I refuse to use PayPal as a payment method because its payment form demands a phone number. Websites that only accept PayPal lose my business.
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by hlandau 4y ago
The retention mechanism in the PCIe spec he's quoting here isn't metal; it's literally just an extra piece of plastic on the PCIe slot. I've used motherboards with them, they do exist. You have to move it out of the way
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by hlandau 4y ago
Very nice! Not exactly the same thing, since it's a high-paced action game, but I was always fond of the DOS game Skyroads, which has a similar aesthetic. (I believe someone has now made a web-based version called OpenRoads.)
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by hlandau 4y ago
In my view, a better regulation would be something like this: - If an email provider decides to close an account, they must offer free forwarding to an email address of the account holder's choice for as long as the email provider oper
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by hlandau 4y ago
I forgot to mention one more model which is kind of specific to games: open the engine/code, sell the assets (levels, etc.) which remain proprietary. This is an interesting compromise which seems to only be really available for games.
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by hlandau 4y ago
This is by definition not FOSS.
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by hlandau 4y ago
One method this article doesn't mention is a "sell the binaries" model, usually combined with some level of support (consumer software) or a support contract (more complex/enterprise things). This model personally appeal
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by hlandau 4y ago
When I saw this, I was about to comment about how in seemingly every single case of a major laptop vendor selling a Linux model, it turns out the Linux version is unavailable in the UK. Then at the end of the article, I saw it list the UK a
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by hlandau 4y ago
Nice site. I like the design. The speed of page loads is particularly noticeable to me; what does the stack look like? There's no visible border on the username/password fields on the login page for me, you might want to fix that.
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Ask HN: What are the best illustrations in a technical book you've seen?
6 points by hlandau 4y ago|6 comments
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by hlandau 4y ago
If there's sufficient determination, people will just write replacement backends. This is a real phenomenon. As I recall some years ago Ubisoft tried to come out with a (single-player) video game which couldn't be played offline,
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Computers are an oppressive technology(devever.net)
155 points by hlandau 4y ago|140 comments
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Show HN: A game for learning C operator precedence(devever.net)
7 points by hlandau 4y ago|3 comments
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by hlandau 4y ago
Good point. Movable Type, one of the oldest blogging engines, used CGI Perl scripts for the admin interface and generated static files. I believe if someone made a comment it would cause the relevant pages to be regenerated in just this way
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by hlandau 4y ago
These all look interesting and I'm looking forward to exploring them. I've already quite some fun discovering new warrens of the indieweb in the wake of this article. I haven't felt this way browsing the web in, say, 20 years
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by hlandau 4y ago
Author here. One thing that occurs to me is that it seems to me that there's a lot of "dark matter" programmers out there, which we don't often interact with. These are not professional programmers but they tinkered with
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by hlandau 4y ago
Author here. I'm glad you asked. Basically if you want an "authentic" experience: - Install Apache with mod_php and a MySQL (/MariaDB) server. Your distro will probably make this fairly easy (with Debian it's just a
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by hlandau 4y ago
Author here. I wasn't aware people had made Lua Server Pages and so on. Thanks, these are an interesting resource and I may actually investigate experimenting with these at some point. If there's a distinction to be made, it'
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by hlandau 4y ago
Author here. I have very, very similar childhood memories of PHP. It really was a magic thing to mess around with - I think a lot of people had this experience. I suspect back then a lot of people learnt webdev this way. Sadly I suspect it&
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The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website(devever.net)
4 points by hlandau 4y ago|91 comments
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by hlandau 4y ago
I'm unsure what you're responding to. The part you quoted refers to the original language used to produce Z-Machine files, ZIL. We know what ZIL looked like: https://www.filfre.net/2012/01/zil-and-the-z-m
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by hlandau 4y ago
Amazing news. It's great this is finally open. I have quite a bit of respect for the fact that this is a successful, real-world program developed using Literate Programming. It's a style of programming which has interested me befo
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by hlandau 5y ago
Amazing news. So I guess the question here is how he got a hold of the rights. A little disappointed it's going to be high-res and not pixel art, Thimbleweed Park style. I really need to get round to playing Thimbleweed Park...
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by hlandau 5y ago
C APIs like ioctl, setsockopt, etc. are perhaps also an example of narrow waists which aren't mentioned in the article. I've been looking for a term for these kinds of functions, which seem to be quite successful long-term in term
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by hlandau 5y ago
I've used Linux as a desktop since 2013 and to this day I still use foobar2000 as my music player under wine because I've never found anything better.
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by hlandau 5y ago
When Blu-ray came out, it came with all sorts of DRM madness (AACS, BD+, etc.) which persists to this day. However playback on PCs still ultimately involved some kind of proprietary player software which contains keys to decrypt the content
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by hlandau 5y ago
Good. The desire to support the unreasonable demands of the film industry here has led to the perversion of the x86 architecture to add all sorts of peculiar DRM functionalities, and has precluded firmware components from being made open so
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by hlandau 5y ago
Supposedly, it became so common for people to get stuck here, the hold music for the SEGA hotline added a message telling people how to get past it, before they even spoke to someone.
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by hlandau 5y ago
Can someone tell me where to get a definitive list of DOI prefixes? I tried to find this some time ago and came away very frustrated. The system seems in reality very opaque.

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